Renewed Violence in Jerusalem
Threatens New Mideast Truce

Renewed violence Thursday threatened a truce agreement hammered out between Israeli and Palestinian leaders in an all-night session Wednesday, but both sides agreed to work to end the crisis.

Only hours after Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and former Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres struck a deal to end five weeks of violence that has left at least 160 dead, most of them Palestinians or Arab-Israelis, a car-bomb explosion killed two Israelis in western Jerusalem, including the daughter of a prominent Israeli politician....